PUBLISHING TECHNIQUES FOR ADDING VALUE TO A RENDERED DOCUMENT

• US 20140236978A1
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Published: 08/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: King, Martin T., Grover, Dale L., Kushler, Clifford A., Stafford-Fraser, James Q.
• Application Number:
  US14/144,387
• Publication Number:
  US 20140236978A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/332 Query formulation

Abstract

A system for processing a visual capture operation as described. The system receives an indication of a visual capture operation performed from a rendered document. The indication specifies both a text sequence capture as part of the capture operation and a supplemental marking captured as part of the capture operation. The system determines an action to perform in response to receiving the indication, based both upon the text sequence specified in the indication and the supplemental markings specified by the indication.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A method implemented by data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving, from a user device, captured text that was captured from a rendered document by the user device;

identifying, based on the captured text, digital material that corresponds to the rendered document;

identifying a portion of the digital material that corresponds to the captured text; and

providing the user device with data that causes presentation of the identified portion of the digital material.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein receiving, from the user device, captured text that was captured from the rendered document by the user device comprises:

receiving an image depicting at least a portion of the rendered document; and

obtaining the captured text from the image using one or more optical character recognition methods.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the captured text includes a document indicator that specifies the rendered document, and wherein identifying, based on the captured text, digital material that corresponds to the rendered document comprises:

identifying the rendered document based on the document indicator included in the captured text; and

identifying the digital material based an association between the digital material and the rendered document, the association being stored in a document index.

23. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

identifying the rendered document based on the captured text, and wherein identifying, based on the captured text, digital material that corresponds to the rendered document comprises;

identifying the digital material based an association between the digital material and the rendered document, the association being stored in a document index.

24. The method of claim 20, wherein the digital material is a web page, and wherein providing the user device with data that causes presentation of the identified portion of the digital material comprises providing the user device with data that causes presentation of the web page in a browser of the user device.

25. The method of claim 20, wherein:

the rendered document is one of a book, a magazine, or a catalog; and

the portion of the digital material that corresponds to the captured text corresponds to a particular position of the rendered document that includes the captured text.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the digital material comprises audio-visual content.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the digital material is an electronic counterpart of the rendered document.

28. A system comprising:

one or more data processing apparatus; and

a data storage device storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more data processing apparatus, cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising;

receiving, from a user device, captured text that was captured from a rendered document by the user device;

identifying, based on the captured text, digital material that corresponds to the rendered document;

identifying a portion of the digital material that corresponds to the captured text; and

providing the user device with data that causes presentation of the identified portion of the digital material.

29. The system of claim 28, wherein receiving, from the user device, captured text that was captured from the rendered document by the user device comprises:

receiving an image depicting at least a portion of the rendered document; and

obtaining the captured text from the image using one or more optical character recognition methods.

30. The system of claim 28, wherein the captured text includes a document indicator that specifies the rendered document, and wherein identifying, based on the captured text, digital material that corresponds to the rendered document comprises:

identifying the rendered document based on the document indicator included in the captured text; and

identifying the digital material based an association between the digital material and the rendered document, the association being stored in a document index.

31. The system of claim 28, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying the rendered document based on the captured text, and wherein identifying, based on the captured text, digital material that corresponds to the rendered document comprises;

identifying the digital material based an association between the digital material and the rendered document, the association being stored in a document index.

32. The system of claim 28, wherein the digital material is a web page, and wherein providing the user device with data that causes presentation of the identified portion of the digital material comprises providing the user device with data that causes presentation of the web page in a browser of the user device.

33. The system of claim 28, wherein:

the rendered document is one of a book, a magazine, or a catalog; and

the portion of the digital material that corresponds to the captured text corresponds to a particular position of the rendered document that includes the captured text.

34. The system of claim 33, wherein the digital material comprises audio-visual content.

35. The system of claim 33, wherein the digital material is an electronic counterpart of the rendered document.

36. A computer readable medium including instructions that, when executed by one or more data processing apparatus, cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a user device, captured text that was captured from a rendered document by the user device;

identifying, based on the captured text, digital material that corresponds to the rendered document;

identifying a portion of the digital material that corresponds to the captured text; and

providing the user device with data that causes presentation of the identified portion of the digital material.

37. The computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein receiving, from the user device, captured text that was captured from the rendered document by the user device comprises:

receiving an image depicting at least a portion of the rendered document; and

obtaining the captured text from the image using one or more optical character recognition methods.

38. The computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the captured text includes a document indicator that specifies the rendered document, and wherein identifying, based on the captured text, digital material that corresponds to the rendered document comprises:

identifying the rendered document based on the document indicator included in the captured text; and

identifying the digital material based an association between the digital material and the rendered document, the association being stored in a document index.

39. The computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying the rendered document based on the captured text, and wherein identifying, based on the captured text, digital material that corresponds to the rendered document comprises;

identifying the digital material based an association between the digital material and the rendered document, the association being stored in a document index.